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Building the Ersatz M7 Priest / Stug III as used by the German forces in Operation Greif during the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes. In late 1944 Otto Skorzeny was ordered by Hitler to infiltrate American lines using captured US vehicles and uniforms, with the goal of capturing key bridges and destroying important infrastructure. Limited by a lack of captured US vehicles, Skorzeny decided to "convert" German armoured vehicles into US ones. In this case a Stug III was altered to look something akin to an M7 Priest - at least from a distance. Another famous example is the conversion of a Panther Ausf G into an M10 tank destroyer (subscribe to see this in a future video!). For more information about Operation Greif, I recommend this Mark Felton video: • SS Commandos - Ardenne...
This kit is from Takom and is very similar to their Stug kit aside from the extra sprue representing the small number of "M7" parts.
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